Carbon Dioxide Surgical Field Flooding and Aortic No-touch Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting to Reduce Neurological Injuries After Surgical Coronary Revascularization (CANON): a Randomised, Controlled, Investigator and Patient Blinded Single Center Superiority Trial With Three Parallel Arms.

(Study arm 1) In this intervention only the internal mammary artery grafts will be used (i.e. left internal mammary artery graft, right internal mammary artery graft, or a Y-graft that uses right internal mammary artery graft anastomosed onto left internal mammary artery graft to allow for a wide territory of myocardial revascularization). However, in the rare event that the aforementioned approach is insufficient to reach all target vessels, a reversed (great) saphenous vein graft may be used to extend the left internal mammary artery graft or the right internal mammary artery graft.

(Study arm 2) In this intervention chest cavity will be insufflated with carbon dioxide at a flow above 5 l/min during the entire surgical procedure.

"(Study arm 3) This is the control arm undergoing traditional OPCABG with partial clamp."